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| Olof Arvidson Marching Band in Snowstorm ca. 1935 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Josef Hegenbarth On the Tram ca. 1935 oil on board Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Max Beckmann The Removal of the Sphinxes 1945 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Ferdinand Erfmann Cloakroom 1954 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum |
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| Edgar Klier Production Meeting 1955 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Diane Arbus Russian Midget Friends in a Living Room on 100th Street New York City 1963 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Norman Parkinson Untitled ca. 1970 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Werner Tübke Group of Workers 1972 tempera on panel Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Lena Santesson-Carlsson A Cat's Ascension 1974 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Wolfgang Mattheuer Jubilant Sisyphus and Followers 1976 oil on panel Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Nan Goldin Couple in Bed, Chicago 1977 C-print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Willibald Storn Den Siste Lystmorder 1981 screenprint Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Einar Sigstad The Seven Men 1993 oil on canvas Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Allen Sapp Gathering ca. 2000 acrylic on canvas National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa |
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| Peter Dahl In 1939 Father came to Stockholm 2002 lithograph Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Neo Rauch Kommen wir zum Nächsten 2005 oil on canvas Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
A Plaint of Flowers
Although, those years, we squandered
grief upon our dead
grief upon our dead
as rich and wild as blood,
time was the healthy animal
infecting our every breath.
But now, my oldest friend,
expect from me no sorrow
beyond this formal plaint of flowers.
I have no heartbeat moment
left to lavish on any
death but mine. My pride
lies withered here like yours. I feel
your pockets for the penny
you leave behind unspent.
Yet somewhere in this mortician's
scene your death and mine together,
should, like strong young men, stand weeping.
– Ernest Sandeen, from Children and Older Strangers (1962)